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ib.; their early painters and sculp-
tors were slaves, ib.; slow progress
of the art among the Romans, 454;
a correct conception of the Roman
painting afforded by the discoveries at
Herculaneum and Pompeii, and the
baths of Titus, ib.; their beauty and
defects, 454, 5; the Romans igno-
rant of landscape painting, ib. ; their
arabesques not most probably their
first order of painting, ib.; degeneracy
of the art from the fifth century, 456;
extract, ib.; author's remarks on mosaic
painting, 457, 8; lasting advantages
secured to the Italian school, by the
Greek statues which abounded in
Italy, 458; restoration of the art,
ib.; Florentine school, 459; Raffaelle,
ab.; his second style, ib. ; his school of
Athens, ib. ; vision of Heliodorus,
460; victory of the Christians at the
port of Ostia, ib.; third era of the
Roman school, 460, I; decay of the
art in Italy, 461; Bolognese school,
&c. ib.; Titian, his manner, ib.; Rey-
nolds's remarks on Titian, 461, 2; the
harmony of colours not well under-
stood in the Venetian School, 462;
present state of the art in Italy, ib.;
Cammucinia, ib.; Landi, ib.; Agri-
cola, 463.

Orontes, beautiful appearance of its banks,

18.

Oryctology, outlines of, see Parkinson,

&c.

Palmyra, ruins and tombs of, 19, 20.
Papists, their active zeal in the present
day, 411.

Parkinson's outlines of oryctology, 44,
et seq.; two modes adopted by natu-
ralists, of cousidering the remains of
a former order of things, 45; mode
followed by the author, 46; first
stage ofvegetable mineralization called
bituminous, how produced, ib.; Bovey-
coal and Suturbrand of Ireland, ib.;
the passing of fossil wood into jet, 46,
7; petrifaction of vegetable sub-
stances, 47; nature of the stony ma-
terials, ib.; mode of its forma-
tion, ib.; calcareous petrifactions,
48; formation of, ib.; incrustations
at Matlock bath, Tivoli, and Peru,
ib.; mineralization of vegetable sub-
stances by metals, 49; pyrites, ib. ;
why so called, ib.; pyritical wood, up-
pearance of, ib.; wood tin, in Mexico,
ib.; curious fact in regard to vegetable
remains, 50; zoophytes in rocks, ib. ;

spunge, the least perfect of the zoo-
phytes, ib. fossil tubiporæ, 51;
madreporites, ib.; encrinites and
pentacrinites, 52; lily encrinite, ib. ;
its great number of bones, 51,2; fos-
sil human skeletons from Guadaloupe,
53; pious reflections of the author, 54.
Parmegiano, sketch of the life of, 216,
et seq.; see Correggio.
Peninsula, recollections of the, 146,
el seq.; author's object, 146, 7; high
excitement of a campaign, 147; the
alleviations attendant on the soldier's
sick bed, ib.; lively description of a
bivouac, 148; battle of Albuera, 155.
Petra, Necropolis of, 26; valley of, 27.
Philo, island of, 5.

Phillips's Sylva Florifera, 175, et seq. ;
subjects of the present work, 175,
177; history of the elm, ib.; the
elm probably not indigenous to Eng-
land, ib.; cultivated as a support to
the vine, 178; a monumental tree,
ib. introduced into Spain from Eng-
land, ib.; description of Queen Eliza-
beth's elm, formerly at Chelsea, ib.; dif-
ferent species of the elm, 179; va-
rious uses to which the ash is ap-
plied, 130; the manna of the pharma-
copeia produced by two varieties of this
iree, ib.; large ash in Lochaber
church yard, 181; fructification of the
ash, ib.

Popery, altered feeling of the public in
regard to it, 408, 9; probable causes
of it, 409, 10.

Popery, its revival on the continent ac-
companied with all its former folly, 470.
Portuguese, decay of their language and
influence in India, 436.

Prayer, an encouragement to, from a con·
sideration of the intercession of Christ,
226.

Prayer, new guide to, 265, et seq.
Preaching, expository, remarks on, 183,
et seq.

Pringle's account of the present state of
the English settlers in Albany, South
Africa, 571, et seq.; the author se-
cretary to the society at Cape Town,
for the relief of distressed settlers,
571; emigration to Algoa Bay
hurriedly concerted, ib,; mistakes of
Mr. Barrow, 572; elephants nume-
Tous in the colony and very large,
572, 3; prevalence of the vegetable-
distemper called rust, 573; extract,
ib.; dispersion of the colonists, ib.
wretched state of those who remained at
the settlement, 574.

Prisons in France, present state of, 392.
Prone, by a poet. 284; et seq.; subjects

of the work, 285; the moon and stars,
285, 6.

Protestantism, continental, an English cler
gyman's description of it, 473.
Pyrites, why so called, 49; pyritical

wood, appearance of, ib.

Quakers begin to bury in gardens,

orchards, &c. 128.
Quin's translation of the memoirs of
Ferdinand VII. of Spain, 355, et seq.

visit to Spain in the years 1822
and 1823, 70, et seq.; author's re-
marks on the Spanish constitution, 72.&c.
clergy and grandees hostile to it, ib. ;
character of the ex-ministers, ib.

Rajah of Tanjore, the present, educated
by Swartz, 248; his muniticence to
the mission there, ib.

Relics exhibited at Courtray and Brussels,
&c. by the popish priests, 486, &c.
Romans, ancient, had no school of
painting, 453; ignorant of landscape
painting, 455.

Roughley's Jamaica planter's guide, &c.

97, et seq.

Rousseau, singular circumstance in his early
life, 317.

Scenes and impressions in Egypt and
Italy, 548, et seq.; wretched state of
the Turkish government, 548; true
character of the Turks, ib.; remarks
on the death of Lord Byron, 549; his
later writings, 549. 50; sketch of a
Greek schooner and of the caplain, 550;
author's character of the Greek, 551; of
the Turk, ib.; the Turkish soldiery, 551,

2;

rocks of pale red coral visible below
the surface of the sen, 552; description
of the desert, ib.; the importance of the
camel among the Arabs, 552,5; descrip-
tion of Thebes, 553, el seq.; Siout, the
ancient Lycopolis, 555; emir of the
Druses of Mount Lebanon soliciting
pardon at Cairo, 555, 6; interview with
the Pasha, 556; the Pasha's real motives
for protecting European travellers, ib. ;
influence of our consul-general with him,
556, 7; author leaves Egypt, 557;
visits St. Peter's, ib. ;
Schooner, Greek, sketch of, 550.
Sea, Dead, bitterness and buoyaney of
its waters, 23.

Sermon of a converted Budhu priest, ex-
tract from it, 443, et seq.

Sheppard's thoughts preparative to pri-

vate devotion, 224, et seq.; subjects
of the essays, 225; omnipresence of
the Deity, 225, 6; encouragement to
prayer, from the intercession of Christ,
226, 7.

Simond's Switzerland, journal of a resi-
dence there, in the years 1817, 18,

19, 306, et seq. the history of Swit-
zerland barren of events, 308, 9; its
liberty never of a popular nature, ib. ;
extract, ib.; Berne the purest model
of the Swiss aristocracies, 309; state
of its government at different periods,
309, 10; no middle class of people in
Switzerland, 311; causes that hastened
the downfal of the Bernese aristocra-
cy, 313;
noble but unsuccessful defence of
the Sviss at Nilwalden, against the
French under general Schauenburg, 313,
14; Pestalozzi collects and provides for
the orphans, after the battle, ib.; de-
scription of the city and inhabitants of
Berne, 314, 15; state of the women, 315;
amount of the capital condemnations in
the Canton of Berne for the last seven-
teen years, ib. note; Bernese morals,
315, 16; corrupt state of Genevese mo-
rals at the era of the reformation, 324;
author's estimate of the character of Cal-
vin, 324, 5; Calvin's last illness, &c.
325; author's representation of the Eng-
lish absentees at Geneva, 325, et seq.
Singhalese adults, their excessive stu-
pidity, 438.

Siout, the ancient Lycopolis, 556.
Skeletons, fossil, two human ones found
at Guadaloupe, 49.

Small's interesting Roman antiquities
recently discovered in Fife, &c. 527,
et seq.; general design of the work,
527; difference of natural taste in
different persons, ib. ; high importance
attached by the author to the dis-
covery of the site of the battle be-
tween Galgacus and Agricola, 528;
diversity of opinion respecting the
spot, ib. Tacitus's notice of the
Grampian bilis, ib.; author's reasons
for deciding that it took place in Fife-
shire, ib.; accuses Tacitus of wilful
misrepresentation, 529; Agricola's
march from east Blair to Strathearn, ib. ;
sile of the field of battle, 529, 30.
Societes des Dimanches, 319, 20.
Stanzas to a butterfly resting on a skull, 88.
Stewart's view of the island of Jamaica,
97, el seq.

Strutt's Sylva Britannica, 175, et seq.;
subjects of the numbers already published,
175, 6; plan and execution of the

work, 176; history and description of
the Shelton oak, 176, 7; tradition re-
lative to the Chipstead elm, 179.
Suffolk words and phrases, 89, et seq.
Suicide, prevalence of, at Geneva, 321;
its cause, 321, 2.

Sumner's evidence of Christianity, de-
rived from its nature and reception,
507, et seq.; natureof the real contro-
versy with the infidel, ib.; fine thought
of Pascal, 508; the author's candid state-
ment of the sceptical question, 508, et
seq.; authenticity of the historic records
of the New Testament, 510; cause
of the success of Mahommed's im-
posture, 511, 12; success of Chris-
tianity and its fundamental doctrines not
to be explained upon the same principles,
512, 13; the doctrines and phra
seology of the apostles not in coufor-
mity to Jewish opinious, 514, 15;
extract from bishop Reynolds, 515;
men cannot remain unbelievers through
defect of evidence, 516; cause of the pre-
vailing error, that the conduct of men is
a matter of indifference to their Creator,
517, 18; the humble condition in which
our Lord appeared not inconsistent with
the high character he assumed, 518: the
Christian doctrine of redemption through
a Mediator intelligible, as well as origi
nal, 519.

Swartz, grave-stone to the memory of, at
Tanjore, 249.

Syrians, their great desire to be under

the protection of a European Chris-
tian power, 260.

System, lunar, discovery of, on a ceiling in
the temple of Isis, at Tentyra, 12.

Tabboo at New Zealand, great efficacy of, as
experienced by the captain of the Prince
Regent schooner, 161.
Thebes, description of, 553, et seq.
Thieves of Serringapattah, their astonishing
dexterity, 249, 50.

Thoughts, morning, in prose and verse,
380, 81; extract, ib.
Thought, a, on the sea-shore, 568,

Time's telescope, for 1824, 87, et seq.;
stanzas to a butterfly resting on a skull,
88.

Tinevelley, state of the schools in the country
of, 250, 51.

Titian, remarks on his manner, &c. 461.
Toller's sermons, with memoirs of the au-
thor, by Robert Hall, 134, et seq.; Mr.
Hall's remarks on the Daventry academy,
135; influence of the Daventry system
of instruction on the author, ib.; natu-

Iral tendency of the system injurious
to the divinity student, 135, 6, see
note; advantageous result of his settle-
ment at Kellering, 138; noble disin-
terestedness of the author, 140; on
the distinction between the church
and the congregation, 141, 2; remarks
of Mr. Hall, on the same subject, ib.;
the author's sudden illness and death,
142; Mr. Hall's contrast of Mr. Fuller
and Mr. Toller, 143; remarks on Chris-
tian candour, ib.; conversion of an
aged couple by means of a sermon on
a recent marriage, ib. ; extracts from
the sermon, 144, 5.

Toulouse, murderous battle of, 156, 7.
Tract Magazine or Christian Miscellany,
476; objection to its style, 478; ex-
tract, ib.

Tracts, penny, 476, et seq.; objections
to a late measure of the tract society,
477.

Travancore, prosperous state of the cen-
tral Tamul School at Nagracoil in
that country, 252.

Trial by jury, how conducted in France,
35.

Turk, character of the, 551.

Verdict of the jury in France, mode by
which it is determined, 404.

Walker's supplementary annotations on
Livy, &c. 230, et seq.; author's con-
scientious rejection of ecclsiastical
immunities and honours, 250; de-
cline of classical learning in this
country, ib.; his opinion of the
causes of it, 251,2; and that the two
universities should be open to dissenters,
233; insufficiency of his proposed
remedies, ib.; reasons shewing that a
dissenting university in this country
is an impracticable measure, 234, 5;
the highest education not required for
dissenting ministers, 235; advantages
of a university residence at Oxford or
Cambridge not to be equalled by any
new institution for dissenters, 236, 7;
the author's edition of Livy little
known in England, 237; cause of it,
ib. 5
his qualifications as an annotator,
238; specimen of the author's anno-
tations, with critical remarks, &c.
239, et seq.
Warreniana, 475.

Watts's, Alaric, poetical sketches, 83,
et seq.

Wrhárees, or Budhu temples, 441.
Wood tin, occurring in Mexico, 49.

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